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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 1h

Find journals and serials like "American Potato Journal," NAACP's official publication, "The Crisis," or the 1917 Harper's Bazar run [sic] in HathiTrust. Check out this help article for tips! buff.ly/Vl8thmH #digitallibraries #trusty

two magazine covers of 1917 issues of Harper's Bazar

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 3d

We're crushing it this season! In this month's News Trunk: HathiTrust members approve the 2026 budget to support our mission and elect two new board members! #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/LGg4yyS

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 12d

HathiTrust Resource Sharing has launched a pilot with nine member libraries, including NYPL, UMich, UChicago, UND, Brown, Cornell, Berkeley, UMass-Amherst, and OSU. Full service for U.S. members is expected in early 2026. More details at: buff.ly/yy2RAIk #trusty #digitallibraries

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 14d

Curious about accessing HathiTrust's 19 million items? What you can download depends on copyright, login, and library affiliation. Visit the Help Center for more info #digitallibraries #trusty: buff.ly/7HYKXhw

Screenshot from HathiTrust Help Center: What You Can Download from the Collection

HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 14d

Find the context and check the facts on today's topics: Search nearly 1 mil U.S. federal documents incl Congressional Reports, historical data from EPA, and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings #digitallibraries #trusty babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=lis...

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 16d

Happy National Elephant Day! Their brains are the largest of any land animal weighing @11 lbs! Researchers attribute their long memories to survival. #Trusty - find a book on HathiTrust next time! #digitallibraries

Stuffed grey elephant sits on a blue couch with its face buried in a huge vintage dictionary.

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 28d

We're in our Get Things Done era! With support from Mellon, we've assembled a new team to optimize operations, enhance data analysis, and develop strategies to help us grow and fulfill our mission. Meet the team in this Community Week video: buff.ly/H4CWlBL #digitallibraries #trusty

Building Resilience at HathiTrust. July 14, 2025 Andrea Cote, Erin Russell, Priyanka Selvaraj

HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · 29d

Toast, Nuncio, Gargoyle, Dante, Bobolink, Morro: shades from the 1922 Fall Season Color Card of America. Who knew the color of Caprice is ... ?#digitallibraries #trusty
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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Sep 4

Listen to the Community Week session on how HathiTrust collection building intersects with special collections like Michigan's Joseph A. Labadie Collection! Come for the recording, stay for the Anarchy. #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/2kTmBao

HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Aug 26

ahhh... the dog (elephant) days of summer! Trusty's enjoying their last bit of vacay before getting back to classes and their research. Where's the tiki bar? 🍹 #digitallibraries #trusty

A stuffed gray elephant wearing sunglasses and holding sunscreen sits in an orange inner tube at the edge of a turquiose swimming pool.

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Aug 25

Stay updated with the latest news trunk! We welcome new User Support team members, introduce a new Board of Governors leader from UCLA, and share webinar recordings, HathiTrust Resource Sharing, and more. #digitallibraries #trusted

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our members urged us fortheloveofallthingsholy to "just make it easier" to contribute digitized books to HathiTrust. We gathered their feedback and potential solutions, highlighted in this webinar recording: buff.ly/DCrQYda #digitallibrary #trusty

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 31

We're thrilled to have new members of our Program Steering Committee! Welcome to Michael Brewer (U of AZ), Nathan Hall (Penn State) and Myung-Ja (MJ) Han (UIUC) buff.ly/z8s9r9K #digitallibraries #trusty

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 29

Awwwwww! 😍 It's the July newsletter! We've got Community Week recordings, new leaders in our program steering group, and more news in our Trunk! 🐘 buff.ly/ynRZPzU #digitallibraries #trusty

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 17

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of:
18,725,868 volumes
6,867,699,164 pages
3,255,304,293,468 tokens
450+ languages

go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download
cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 17

We closed out a fabulous 2025 Community Week today! If you missed any of the sessions, you can see them on our YouTube channel. Some weeks come in small, mighty packages 🐘 #digitallibraries buff.ly/S2tB4BB

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎉 YES! 🎉 @maggiepye.bsky.social one less Thing for you to track! #digitallibraries

Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social · Jul 9

Found The Thing for a patron in the full-view HathiTrust collection so we don't need to ILL it.

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're thrilled about kicking off 2025 Community Week this Monday! Join us to explore member experiences with our digital collections, leveraging HathiTrust metadata, and optimizing your library's membership. Contact [email protected] for registration. #digitallibraries #HT25commweek #trusty

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 8

We log this as high praise! 🐘 Thanks 😁

Noah Shusterman @ncshusterman.bsky.social · Jul 5

So... Hathitrust is pretty f*****g awesome.

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jul 2

While we don't depend on government grants, support from IMLS and NEH has been instrumental in expanding our initiatives in copyright evaluation and text analysis. More details can be found at buff.ly/ALOqs6T

"Just societies depend upon research and scholarship based upon open inquiry and access to trusted knowledge. The threat to IMLS and NEH is a threat to the creation and preservation of this knowledge." Mike Furlough, Executive Director, HathiTrust

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jun 24

Catch the thrilling updates in the June News Trunk! Sign up for Community Week, join the User Support team, get the scoop on Resource Sharing, and much more! #Libraries #DigitalLibraries buff.ly/s1p0Or1

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jun 19

Registration is now open for HathiTrust Community Week, 7/14 - 7/16! Join us for three days of exploration and learning, guided by the brilliant minds from our HathiTrust members. You can sign up for one, two, or all sessions. Visit buff.ly/VFPHAC1 to register.

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jun 17

We gotta give a shout out to our 200+ member libraries that not only contribute digitized texts, but also support our mission to preserve and provide access to them. WOW is right 🙂 www.hathitrust.org/member-libra...

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thrilled at the publication of our @uclpress.bsky.social book, co-edited with @lisejaillant.bsky.social, Stephen Downie, Paul Gooding, Claire Warwick, & Katie Aske, with contributions from many great colleagues, incl. @thomaspadilla.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @melissaterras.bsky.social +

Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · Jun 12

🌟 New Release!
Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations is here! 🚀 Explore AI’s role in archives, libraries, & museums with insights from top experts.

📖 Available #OpenAccess: uclpress.co.uk/AIHeritage

#AI #CulturalHeritage

Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations

The question of how artificial intelligence and machine learning should be applied to data in libraries and other cultural institutions is a challenge shared by heritage professionals, computer scient...

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HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Jun 4

Anne Bonny and Mary Read, long before "This Flag Means Death," sailed in men's attire as noted in Daniel Defoe's 1726 work, "A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates." IYKYK bit.ly/43KgySB

Woodcut of two pirates with swords stand on a hill with four pirate ships sailing in the distance. (image from James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota)

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